Welcome to the fourth edition of The Desk.

The Desk is my weekly newsletter covering newly published content and project updates.

New Tutorials

New Projects

New Newsletter Issues

The Web Development Weekly newsletter is now hosted directly on the This Week In website.

New Awesome Lists

Welcome to the third edition of The Desk.

The Desk is my weekly newsletter covering newly published content and project updates.

Weekly Newsletters

New Tutorials

New Projects

Node v15.12.0 (Current) Released https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v15.12.0/

webpack 5.28.0 Released https://github.com/webpack/webpack/releases/tag/v5.28.0

React Spring 9.0 Released https://aleclarson.github.io/react-spring/v9/

pkg 4.5.0 Released https://github.com/vercel/pkg/releases/tag/4.5.0

The End of AMP https://www.lafoo.com/the-end-of-amp/

Instagram Lite Is No Longer a Progressive Web App — Now a Native App Built with Bloks https://thenewstack.io/instagram-lite-is-no-longer-a-progressive-web-app-now-a-native-app-built-with-bloks/

React Native 0.64 Brings the Hermes JavaScript Engine to iOS https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/03/react-native-064-hermes/

New for education sites: Practice problems and Math solver structured data https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2021/03/education-sites-practice-problems-math-solver

Crystal 1.0 — What to expect https://crystal-lang.org/2021/03/22/crystal-1.0-what-to-expect.html

AWS is ending support for Ruby 1.9, 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 with its AWS SDK https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/announcing-the-end-of-support-for-ruby-runtimes-1-9-2-0-2-1-and-2-2-for-the-aws-sdk-for-ruby/

What’s new in SocketIO 4? https://ably.com/blog/whats-new-in-socketio-4

Why Mobile-Only Indexing Will Cause The Biggest SEO Shake Up Of 2021 https://ipullrank.com/why-mobile-only-indexing-will-cause-the-biggest-seo-shake-up-of-2021

Chrome — A safer default for navigation: HTTPS https://blog.chromium.org/2021/03/a-safer-default-for-navigation-https.html

TLS 1.0 and 1.1 are now formally deprecated https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8996/

Welcome to the second edition of the Desk.

The Desk is my weekly newsletter covering newly published content and project updates.

Example .htaccess Snippets

A collection of useful, as well as helpful common .htaccess snippets. Simply copy and paste the snippets to your .htaccess and edit as necessary.

Ghost Platform Powered

My primary website www.himpfen.com is now powered using the Ghost hosted platform. This will allow me to focus on writing more.

Royce Theme

Royce is a single-page, minimalist black, white and gold HTML theme with right-side bar menu, designed for creative professionals to stand-out.

Bluffer’s Park and Beach (4K Video)

Bluffer’s Park and Beach is at the base of the Scarborough Bluffs. The…

Ghost 4.0 Released https://ghost.org/changelog/4/

Clarifications about the SharedArrayBuffer object message https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2021/03/sharedarraybuffer-notes

V8 release v9.0 https://v8.dev/blog/v8-release-90

A web based mission control framework by NASA https://github.com/nasa/openmct

ApexCharts.js 3.26.0 Released https://github.com/apexcharts/apexcharts.js

Node v15.12.0 (Current) Released https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v15.12.0/

About negative keywords https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2453972

What’s New in SQLite 3.35 https://antonz.org/sqlite-3-35/

Next 10 years of Node.js — Understanding the needs of the Node.js constituencies https://nodejs.medium.com/next-10-years-of-node-js-understanding-the-needs-of-the-node-js-constituencies-2f95a1df6a6f

RubyMine 2020.3.3 Is Available https://blog.jetbrains.com/ruby/2021/03/rubymine-2020-3-3-is-available/

New resources for video SEO https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2021/03/new-resources-for-video-seo

Audacity 3.0.0 Released https://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-3-0-0-released/

Highlights from Git 2.31 https://github.blog/2021-03-15-highlights-from-git-2-31/

JRuby 9.2.15.0 has been released https://www.jruby.org/2021/02/24/jruby-9-2-15-0.html

Happy Birthday, Ruby! https://twitter.com/yukihiro_matz/status/1364559848906498049

Go 1.16 is released https://blog.golang.org/go1.16

Rails 6.1.3 Released — a minor fix. 5.2.4.5, 6.0.3.5 and 6.1.2.1 have also been released fixing two security issues. https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2021/2/17/Rails-6-1-3-has-been-released/

3.2.11 Released https://blog.rubygems.org/2021/02/17/3.2.11-released.html

The following is a collection of useful, as well as helpful common .htaccess snippets. Simply copy and paste the snippets to your .htaccess and edit as necessary.

Force www

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]

or

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s ^on(s)|
RewriteRule ^ http%1://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

Force non-www

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

or

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s ^on(s)|off
RewriteCond http%1://%{HTTP_HOST} ^(https?://)(www\.)?(.+)$
RewriteRule ^ %1%3%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

Force HTTPS

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}<IfModule mod_headers.c> # Remove "includeSubDomains" if you don't want to enforce HSTS on all…

Welcome to the first issue of the Desk

The Desk is my weekly newsletter covering newly published content and project updates.

What’s New

Wallpaper 11

A bright and vibrant gradient blue mobile wallpaper with a hint of purple.

https://www.himpfen.com/wallpaper-11/

Custom Styled Radio Buttons using Sass

Example of how-to create custom styled radio buttons using Sass.

https://www.himpfen.com/custom-styled-radio-buttons-sass/

Awesome Lists

Awesome Lists is a collection of lists that provide resources to various topics. Awesome Lists now has a dedicated website, which can be accessed at https://www.awesomelists.io/

The Toronto Harbourfront in a 4K Video

Updates

Brand Colours Website Updated

Brand Colours is a website that…

Twitter tests new e-commerce features for tweets https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/03/twitter-tests-new-e-commerce-features-for-tweets/

esbuild 0.9 Released https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/releases/tag/v0.9.0
- Add support for node’s exports field in package.json files
- Contains backwards-incompatible changes.

d3 v6.6.0 released https://github.com/d3/d3/releases/tag/v6.6.0

Acorn 8.1, JS-based JavaScript parser, released https://github.com/acornjs/acorn

Socket.IO 4.0.0 released https://socket.io/blog/socket-io-4-release/

Karma 6.2 , a test runner, released https://github.com/karma-runner/karma

An update on Android’s audio latency https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/03/an-update-on-androids-audio-latency.html

Apple Plugs Severe WebKit Remote Code-Execution Hole https://threatpost.com/apple-webkit-remote-code-execution/164595/

Go 1.16.1/2 and 1.15.9/10 Released https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/MfiLYjG-RAw/m/zzhWj5jPAQAJ?pli=1

A Proposal for a New Security Policy for Go https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44918…